Mellanox InfiniBand Solutions to Accelerate the World’s Next Fastest Supercomputers

PRESS RELEASE Businesswire

Nov. 13, 2017, 08:30 AM

SUPERCOMPUTING 2017 - Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. (NASDAQ: MLNX),
a leading supplier of high-performance, end-to-end smart interconnect
solutions for data center servers and storage systems, today announced
that the Oak Ridge National Laboratory Summit supercomputer, which is
anticipated to become the world’s fastest supercomputer, is on target
for completion in early 2018. The system utilizes dual-rail Mellanox EDR
100Gb/s InfiniBand to interconnect thousands of compute nodes containing
both IBM POWER CPUs and NVIDIA GPUs, delivering 200Gb/s network speed to
each of the compute platform.

CORAL (Collaboration of Oak Ridge, Argonne and Lawrence Livermore
National Labs) is a project that was initiated in 2013 to develop the
technology that would address the Department of Energy's future
computing needs. After a comprehensive evaluation, the collaboration
between Mellanox, IBM and NVIDIA was selected by the CORAL project team
for the Summit supercomputer in Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Sierra
supercomputer at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

"The advanced InfiniBand capabilities will significantly enhance the
ability of applications to effectively communicate latency-sensitive
data,” said Jim Rogers, computing and facilities director for the
National Center for Computational Sciences at ORNL. "The net result will
be a well-balanced system that holds the promise for dramatically
improving performance for DOE’s mission-critical applications.”

"Simulations of the safety and reliability of elements of the American
nuclear deterrent require arguably the most complex and sophisticated 3D
applications on the planet,” said Michel McCoy, head of Livermore’s
Advanced Simulation and Computing program. "These efforts require the
full capability of machines of this magnitude, and for these systems to
effectively run these codes, extremely low latency, high bandwidth
communication across the platform is essential.”

"The Summit supercomputer will provide revolutionary application
performance by leveraging the most advanced interconnect in the world,”
said Michael Kagan, CTO, Mellanox Technologies. "On behalf of every
employee at Mellanox, we are proud to be a part of this historical
milestone in HPC, and to have contributed to the profound discoveries
and research that this system will enable.”

"The Power9 based IBM Power Systems being deployed as part of Summit
Supercomputing will be an important milestone in high performance
computing to advance scientific discovery,” said Dave Turek, vice
president, High Performance Computing, IBM. "Together, with Mellanox and
NVIDIA we created a formidable combination in collaboration with Oak
Ridge National Labs that will deliver a new era in supercomputing.”

"NVIDIA and Mellanox together have a successful history of building
Top500 systems together,” said Ian Buck, general manager and vice
president of Accelerated Computing at NVIDIA. "Now we are building on
that experience with IBM to deliver a new era in supercomputing.”